Beacon Campaign Sender vs Code Engine – PHP Snippets, AI Functions & Automation for WordPress

Run your entire audience — email, push, and social — from one WordPress dashboard, with AI drafting built in. Beacon Campaign Sender brings campaign management that usually takes three or four separate tools into a single plugin. Write once, let AI help you polish it in your own brand voice, and reach subscribers by email, mobile push, and social media — without copy-pasting between services or wiring up glue code. Key features Email campaigns through Brevo — compose, preview, schedule, and send, with deliverability handled by Brevo’s API. Audience management & segmentation — organize contacts, sync Brevo lists, and target the right people. Mobile push notifications — deliver to devices through Firebase Cloud Messaging. Social publishing with Zernio — post to 12+ platforms from the same composer. AI-assisted drafting — generate and refine campaign content with the latest Claude (Opus 5, Sonnet 5, Fable 5) and OpenAI (GPT-5.6) models, running as reliable background jobs. Brand voice control — keep every AI draft sounding like you. Newsletter signup forms — drop a form on any page with a shortcode, or build your own with custom HTML. WordPress email routing (optional) — route all of your site’s wp_mail() traffic through Brevo, replacing a separate SMTP plugin. Privacy-friendly — subscriber, email-log, AI-job, and push-device data is stored locally on your own site. Subscriber, email-log, and push-device records integrate with WordPress personal-data exporters and erasers; AI-job records expire automatically within 30 days. One dashboard, every channel, no glue code — so you can spend your time on the message, not the plumbing. Uses External Services Brevo Beacon Campaign Sender sends email delivery requests and contact/list operations to Brevo when Brevo features are enabled. If the optional WordPress Email Routing feature is enabled, Beacon Campaign Sender can also route global wp_mail() traffic from WordPress core and other plugins through Brevo. Data sent: – sender and recipient email addresses – campaign subject and message content – contact attributes and list identifiers Service provider: Brevo Service URL: https://www.brevo.com/ Privacy policy: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/ Terms: https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/ OpenAI Beacon Campaign Sender sends prompts and selected campaign context to OpenAI when the OpenAI content-generation option is enabled. Data sent: – prompts entered by administrators – selected post, product, image, or campaign context included in the generation request Data stored by the service: generations run in OpenAI’s background mode, which stores the request and response on OpenAI’s servers (normally for at least 30 days; Zero Data Retention accounts store background responses for roughly ten minutes to enable polling) so interrupted results can be recovered. Service provider: OpenAI Service URL: https://openai.com/ Privacy policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/ Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/ Anthropic Beacon Campaign Sender sends prompts and selected campaign context to Anthropic when the Anthropic content-generation option is enabled. Data sent: – prompts entered by administrators – selected post, product, image, or campaign context included in the generation request Service provider: Anthropic Service URL: https://www.anthropic.com/ Privacy policy: https://www.anthropic.com/privacy Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms Firebase Cloud Messaging Beacon Campaign Sender sends push notification requests to Firebase Cloud Messaging when manual Firebase push delivery is enabled. Data sent: – push notification title and message – recipient device tokens – optional deep link URLs Service provider: Google Firebase Service URL: https://firebase.google.com/ Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms Zernio Beacon Campaign Sender sends social-post publishing requests and webhook configuration data to Zernio when social publishing is enabled. Data sent: – social post content – selected social account identifiers – scheduling timestamps – webhook endpoint URL and webhook status configuration Service provider: Zernio Service URL: https://zernio.com/ Privacy policy: https://zernio.com/privacy-policy Terms: https://zernio.com/tos BuddyBoss App One-click integration with the BuddyBoss App, no configuration needed. Privacy Beacon Campaign Sender stores the following data locally in your WordPress database: Subscriber records — email address, name, consent text, source, IP address, browser user agent, and referrer metadata for newsletter sign-ups. Email logs — recipient addresses, subject, message body, headers, attachment metadata, sender details, delivery status, and error details for transactional email troubleshooting. Push-device tokens — one token per subscribed browser or app, with its platform, subscription date, and (when the subscriber was logged in) the owning WordPress account. Tokens are deleted when a subscriber unsubscribes, on logout release, or automatically once Firebase reports them dead. AI generation jobs — the prompt, selected campaign context, generated result, and job status for each AI generation. These records are retained for a maximum of 30 days and then deleted automatically. WordPress personal-data export and erasure requests cover the subscriber, email-log, and push-device records. AI-job records are not included in the exporters/erasers; they expire automatically on the 30-day schedule instead. Data sent to external services (Brevo, OpenAI, Anthropic, Firebase, Zernio) is described service-by-service in the Uses External Services section above. Third-Party Libraries Firebase JavaScript SDK 10.12.2 Beacon Campaign Sender bundles the Firebase JavaScript SDK (compat builds) for web push notifications, so no executable code is loaded from external servers at runtime. Files: assets/js/vendor/firebase/firebase-app-compat.js, assets/js/vendor/firebase/firebase-messaging-compat.js Official source: https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/10.12.2/firebase-app-compat.js and https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/10.12.2/firebase-messaging-compat.js Project: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk License: Apache License 2.0 (Copyright Google LLC); a complete copy is bundled at assets/js/vendor/firebase/LICENSE

Code Engine is a snippets manager that doesn’t stop at snippets. Yes, it runs your PHP and JavaScript exactly where and when you want: frontend, backend, on a schedule, or inside your content. But its real magic is what happens after you write a function: the same little piece of code instantly becomes a tool your AI chatbots can call, a step you can drag into a visual workflow, and an endpoint the outside world can trigger. One function, three superpowers. Most “code snippets” plugins stop at a textarea and a toggle. Code Engine treats your functions as first-class building blocks for the whole Meow Apps ecosystem, and for anything that can speak REST. Think out of the box, let your creativity flow, because the possibilities really are endless! ✨ For more, check the official website and come say hi on the Discord. Quick Intro Hello! ☀️ I built Code Engine because I was tired of pasting mystery snippets into functions.php and praying. I wanted a place where small bits of code are organized, safe, AI-assisted, and reusable everywhere. Here’s the idea. You write a function (or let the AI write it for you from a plain-English description). That function immediately shows up in three places: AI Engine: your chatbots and MCP clients (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code) can call it as a tool, with real arguments. Ask “how many orders shipped today?” and your chatbot runs your function to answer. Workflow Engine: your function appears in the step picker as its very own block. Drag it onto the canvas, wire it between an AI step and a Slack step, done. No glue code. REST / External tools: give it a secure endpoint and a token, then trigger it from Make.com, n8n, Zapier, a cron job, or a webhook. You never wrote an “integration.” You just wrote a function. Code Engine did the rest. 🤝 Core Modules 🧩 Snippets Manager Backend, Frontend, Persistent, Scheduled, Functions, and in-content (PHP/JS) snippets, all in one clean dashboard with tags, search, scope filters, and priorities. 🪄 AI-Assisted Coding Describe what you want in plain English and let AI Engine write the snippet: code, name, arguments, and scope included. Refine existing code or implement it straight from your comments. 🤖 Functions as AI Tools Every Function snippet becomes a function-calling tool and an MCP tool, so your AI Engine chatbots (and external AI agents) can actually do things on your site, not just talk. 🔀 Functions as Workflow Steps Workflow Engine surfaces each of your functions as its own draggable step. Your custom logic becomes a first-class citizen on the automation canvas. 🌐 External Access (REST) Expose any runnable snippet through a secured REST endpoint with a bearer token. Perfect for Make.com, n8n, webhooks, and scheduled external jobs. 🛡️ Safe Mode A snippet that throws a fatal error is automatically caught and disabled before it can take your site down. Code with confidence. ⏰ Scheduling Run a snippet daily at a chosen time via WP-Cron (reports, cleanups, syncs) without touching the server crontab. 🧱 Code Blocks & Shortcodes (Pro) Drop PHP or JS straight into a post or page with a Gutenberg block or the [code-engine] shortcode, with safety guards. 🧩 Snippets, the way they should be Code Engine organizes your code by scope, so each snippet runs exactly where it belongs: Persistent: runs everywhere (frontend and backend). Your everyday “add this to functions.php” code, but managed. Frontend: runs only on the public site. Backend: runs only in the admin. Function: a named, callable function with typed arguments and defaults. This is the reusable building block (see below). Scheduled: runs on a WP-Cron schedule, at the hour and minute you pick. Content (PHP / JS): runs inside a specific post or page, via a Gutenberg Code Block or the [code-engine] shortcode (Pro). Everything is searchable, taggable, sortable by priority, and importable/exportable. The CodeMirror editor gives you proper syntax highlighting and keyboard shortcuts (Cmd+S to save, Cmd+Enter to run). A nikic/php-parser pass validates your PHP before it ever runs. 🪄 Let AI write it for you Don’t feel like writing the boilerplate? Describe the snippet in plain language and Code Engine, powered by AI Engine, generates the whole thing: the code, a sensible name, a description, the right scope, and, for functions, the argument list with names, types, and defaults. Already have code? Ask the AI to modify it from a prompt, or write a few comments describing what you want and let it fill in the implementation. It’s pair programming, right inside your dashboard. ✨ The big idea: write once, use everywhere This is what makes Code Engine different. A Function snippet is not just code you call from other code. It’s a reusable capability that the rest of your stack can plug into. The moment you save it, the same function is available in three places at once: 1. As an AI tool, for chatbots and AI agents With AI Engine active, your functions are exposed through function calling and over MCP (Model Context Protocol). Your on-site chatbot can run them mid-conversation, and external AI agents (Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, OpenClaw) can call them too. Want a chatbot that checks stock, looks up a booking, or kicks off a process? Write the function; the chatbot gains the skill. 2. As a workflow step, for automation With Workflow Engine, every active function shows up in the Add-step picker as its own block, named after your snippet, with one input per argument. Drag it onto the canvas and wire it between other steps: an AI step that summarizes, your function that saves, a Social Engine step that posts. There’s also a generic “Execute snippet (by ID / by name)” step when you want to call one dynamically. You never write integration code; your function is the integration. 3. As a REST endpoint, for the outside world Give a snippet a custom endpoint name and a bearer token, and it’s instantly callable from anywhere: POST /wp-json/code-engine/v1/snippets-endpoint/your-endpoint Pass arguments as JSON in the body, secure it with a token, and trigger it from Make.com, n8n, Zapier, GitHub Actions, or a humble cron job. Automation without a middleware bill. 🛡️ Safe by default Running arbitrary code is powerful, so Code Engine takes safety seriously: Safe Mode catches fatal errors and auto-disables the offending snippet, so a typo never white-screens your site. REST whitelisting means global snippets only run on trusted REST routes by default, so you choose what to open up. Per-snippet tokens secure your external endpoints. Validation with a real PHP parser before code is saved. For developers who want fewer guardrails, there’s a “Bypass REST Security” option and filters (mwcode_rest_authorized, mwcode_rest_whitelist) to tailor exactly what’s allowed. Works beautifully with the Meow Apps family Code Engine is one engine in a connected set, each one useful alone, magical together: AI Engine: chatbots, content generation, and MCP. Turns your functions into AI tools. Workflow Engine: visual automation. Turns your functions into draggable steps. SEO Engine: smart, lightweight AI SEO. Social Engine: schedule and automate social posts. Why Code Engine? Reusable, not throwaway Other snippet plugins give you a place to paste code. Code Engine gives you a place to build capabilities that your AI, your workflows, and your external tools can all use. Native to WordPress Clean, fast, and built the WordPress way. No clunky external dashboards, no bloat. AI-native Write snippets with AI, expose them to AI. The whole loop lives in your wp-admin. Developer friendly REST API, MCP tools, function calling, scheduling, import/export, and plenty of filters to hook into. Cared for Part of the Meow Apps family, with regular updates and a real human behind it. 💕